Luca Giordano
Italian Baroque painter (1634-1705) · Artists · Died at 70
Luca Giordano was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Giordano was one of the most celebrated artists of the Neapolitan Baroque, whose vast output included altarpieces, mythological paintings and many decorative fresco cycles in both palaces and churches.
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Democritus, 1690, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Rubens Painting an Allegory of Peace, c. 1660, Madrid, Museo del Prado
Venus and Mars, c. 1670s, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Bacchus and Ariadne (c. 1674-1677), Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
Triumph of the Medici in the clouds of Mount Olympus, 1684-1686, fresco in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
Boys fighting, c. 1694-1695, Museo del PradoAbout this person
He moved away from the dark manner of early 17th-century Neapolitan art as practised by Caravaggio and his followers and Jusepe de Ribera, and, drawing on the ideas of many other artists, above all the 16th-century Venetians and Pietro da Cortona, he introduced a new sense of light and glowing colour, of movement and dramatic action. He was internationally successful and travelled widely, working in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain.
